Warrawee

Wahroonga

Upper-north shore residential suburb with an Aboriginal name meaning 'our home'. Orchards and large estates gradually gave way to suburban development on leafy green streets, but it still retains a natural bushland setting in its residential areas.

Roseville

Pymble

Northern residential suburb named after free settler Robert Pymble (1788â€“1861) who acquired a land grant in 1823. Subdivision began in the early 1880s in anticipation of the building of the north shore railway line in 1890.

Annie Wyatt House

Annie Wyatt, a founder of the National Trust (NSW), lived here from 1926, and the unofficial first meeting of the trust was held in the house in 1945.

Gordon

Traditionally the land of the Kuringgai clan, Gordon grew around the railway station as businessmen sought fine vistas and spacious home sites with easy access to the city.

Killara

Built on Kuringgai country, Killara's first European settlement was a convict timber-getting camp established in 1805. In 1821 land was granted to settlers who continued to clear timber and then farm, but Killara remained remote because of bad roads. The railway enabled closer settlement from 1899, and Killara became a garden suburb of large houses and parks.

Nosworthy, Ellice

A graduate of the first academic architecture course, Ellice Nosworthy made it a practice to employ other women architects in her practice, which specialised in domestic buildings.

St Ives

Traditional land of the Guringai people, the area that became St Ives was cleared by timber-getters, and later planted with orchards and market gardens. It remained rural until the 1950s, when immigration brought numbers of Italian, Jewish and later South African migrants. While housing density has increased, there are still areas of bushland in St Ives.

Turramurra

Traditional country of the Terremerregal people, Turramurra was mainly farms and orchards until the railway opened it up for commuters in 1890. Reputed to have a climate 'as bracing as the Blue Mountains', it attracted well-off residents who built elegant homes.

Bradfield

A new subdivision created in 1924, Bradfield was home to world Scouts, the Royal Australian Air Force, and thousands of new migrants, and relocated inner-city dwellers, before becoming the site of the CSIRO's National Measurement Lab. Unusually among Sydney suburbs, it was re-integrated into surrounding suburbs and no longer exists.

Lindfield

Guringai people were the traditional owners of Lindfield until the timber-getters of the convict camp arrived in 1810. Land grants to farmers and orchardists followed, with more development as the highway north, and later the railway, made transport easier. Suburban development proceeded side by side with dairies and small farms. From the late twentieth century, new medium density development has increased Lindfield's population.

West Pymble

One of the later suburbs on Sydney's north shore, West Pymble remained semi-rural into the 1950s, with original settler families remaining important in the district. War service homes began changing things in the 1950s, bringing a whole new group into the bushland surroundings.

West Lindfield

One of the earliest areas of the North Shore to be settled, West Lindfield was built on Guringai land, prized by the Europeans for its tall timbers and fertile river flats.

Marian Street Theatre, Community Theatre and Northside Theatre

A community theatre in a community hall, Marian Street Theatre has managed to provide a varied theatrical offering in a suburban setting over many decades.